Re: Firefox Weirdness...

> Greetings All,
>        Something happened to me last night while browsing the net with
> Firefox
> that took me by surprise, and being a perpetual noob I thought I'd toss
> it up here. I came across a "Scare-ware" site that "scanned" my Ubuntu
> 8.10 box and found a whole bunch of .exe and .dll nasties. Of course I
> realized immediately it was a lame attempt to scare me into buying
> something totally useless, but afterward, Firefox Maximized itself to
> full-screen, obliterating the toolbars so I couldn't close out of it, or
> even shut down the computer.
>        I can see how this would be a major problem for a Windows user, but
> I
> simply changed to a terminal and used Top to end the process. Restarting
> Firefox and restoring the defaults had no effect on the weirdness,
> neither did completely uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox via
> Synaptic, (which was unnecessary as well, but gave me a clue as to what
> the real issue was).
>        The quick and dirty fix was to delete the .mozilla folder from
> ~/home,
> forcing Firefox to create a new file upon restarting it. That seemed to
> fix the issue, except I had to reload all my bookmarks. I have since
> backed-up my .mozilla file under a different name in case it happens
> again.
>        I'm just wondering if there was a simpler/better way to deal with
> it? I
> am running some Windows games and MSIE 6.0 (Misery?) under Wine, if that
> makes a difference, but I doubt it.
>        Thanks,
>        Stu